Stalinist city planning : professionals, performance, and power /

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"Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeHaan, Heather D., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Influence.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953
1900-1999
City planning > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
City planning > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
City planners > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Architecture > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Urbanistes > URSS > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Architecture > Aspect politique > URSS > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Architecture > Political aspects
City planners
City planning
City planning > Political aspects
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Soviet Union
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : planners, performance, and power
  • From Nizhnii to Gorky : setting the stage of socialism
  • Visionary planning : confronting socio-material agencies
  • From ivory tower to city street : building a new Nizhnii Novgorod, 1928-1935
  • Stalinist representation : iconographic vision, 1935-1938
  • Stalinism as stagecraft : the architecture of performance
  • A city that builds itself : the limits of technocracy
  • Performing socialism : connecting space to self
  • Conclusion : living socialism in the shadow of the political.

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